| Preface to the new edition |
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| Acknowledgments |
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Jokes, humor, and taste |
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1 | (22) |
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (2) |
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Humor as a social phenomenon |
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6 | (4) |
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10 | (5) |
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The context of Dutch humor |
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15 | (3) |
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18 | (5) |
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Part I Style and social background |
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Chapter 2 The joke: Genesis of an oral genre |
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23 | (19) |
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24 | (4) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (4) |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (4) |
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Conclusion: Changing criteria for judging the joke |
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40 | (2) |
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Chapter 3 Joke telling as communication style |
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42 | (29) |
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Joke telling and social background |
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43 | (15) |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (3) |
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Gender roles and class cultures |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (2) |
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Humorous communication styles |
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58 | (11) |
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62 | (3) |
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65 | (4) |
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Conclusion: Objections to jokes and criteria for good humor |
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69 | (2) |
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Chapter 4 The humor divide: Class, age and humor styles |
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71 | (31) |
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Humor styles: High and low, old and young |
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72 | (6) |
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Style, status, and knowledge |
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78 | (4) |
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Highbrow and lowbrow humor styles |
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82 | (8) |
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Arguments for lowbrow humor |
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83 | (3) |
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Arguments for highbrow humor |
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86 | (4) |
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90 | (2) |
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Humor styles and taste variations |
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92 | (7) |
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Conclusion: Humor styles beyond standardized Dutch humor? |
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99 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 The logic of humor styles |
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102 | (21) |
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Distinguishing good humor from bad |
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102 | (11) |
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Coarseness: Objections to bad humor |
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103 | (4) |
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"A good sense of humor": Criteria for good humor |
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107 | (6) |
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Class culture and humor style |
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113 | (4) |
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The sense of humor and the self: humor style and authenticity |
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117 | (2) |
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Conclusion: Jokes, taste, and authenticity |
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119 | (4) |
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Part II Taste and quality |
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Chapter 6 The repertoire: Dutch joke culture |
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123 | (27) |
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Jokes and social boundaries |
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124 | (2) |
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Innocuous jokes: Stupidity and other unseemly behavior |
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126 | (5) |
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Sexual jokes: From allusion to transgression |
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131 | (5) |
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Irreverent jokes: Religion, power, suffering and sickness |
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136 | (6) |
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Hurtful jokes: Jokes at the expense of others |
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142 | (5) |
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Conclusion: The hardening of the humor |
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147 | (3) |
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Chapter 7 Temptation and transgression |
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150 | (20) |
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The balance between funny and offensive |
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152 | (6) |
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Varying viewpoints on offensiveness |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (7) |
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World-class jokes: Joke tellers on joke technique |
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160 | (3) |
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The importance of joke-work |
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163 | (2) |
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"Humor is humor": The incompatibility of humor and morals |
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165 | (3) |
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Conclusion: temptation, transgression, and joke quality |
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168 | (2) |
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Chapter 8 Sense and sociability |
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170 | (27) |
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Personal styles of joke tellers |
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170 | (10) |
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Avoiding or transgressing boundaries |
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171 | (5) |
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Specialists and generalists |
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176 | (4) |
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Transgression, identification, and Dutch joke culture(s) |
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180 | (12) |
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180 | (3) |
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183 | (5) |
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Non-college and college-educated people |
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188 | (4) |
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Conclusion: Mechanisms of taste and the sense of sociability |
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192 | (5) |
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Part III Comparing humor styles |
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Chapter 9 National humor styles: Humor styles, joke telling and social background in the United States |
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197 | (35) |
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Researching humor styles in America |
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198 | (3) |
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Jokes and humor styles in the United States: Survey results |
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201 | (6) |
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Transgression and identification in American jokes |
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207 | (4) |
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American humorous identifications |
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209 | (2) |
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The social status of the joke in America |
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211 | (7) |
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American arguments against the joke |
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214 | (4) |
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American views on a good sense of humor |
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218 | (6) |
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"You gotta have a sense of humor": Humor and the moral self |
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224 | (6) |
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Conclusion: Telling a joke to save your life |
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230 | (2) |
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Chapter 10 Sociology and the joke |
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232 | (21) |
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The appreciation of jokes: Genre and individual jokes |
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232 | (5) |
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Style: Evaluating a humorous genre |
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233 | (2) |
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Form and content: Evaluating individual jokes |
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235 | (2) |
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Gender, age, class and nationality: The dynamics of social differences |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (7) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (2) |
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National differences and cultural logics |
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242 | (3) |
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Distinction and difference |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (4) |
| Appendix 1 The jokes used in the Dutch survey |
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253 | (6) |
| Appendix 2 Dutch humorists and television programs |
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259 | (5) |
| References |
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264 | (12) |
| Subject Index |
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